A long line of police cars left St. Vitus Parish after the Mass and joined a procession through the community. They also passed by the Shenango Township police station en route to the funeral at the Crestview Memorial Park cemetery in Grove City.

"We greatly appreciate it. I mean, our family's going through a really tough time right now. Jerry was the world to all of us," stepson Phillip McFall said at a viewing on Tuesday. "It just means the world to us that everyone's showing their respect and coming out here. We appreciate all the officers out there that are putting their lives on the lines for us and all the fallen officers who have died to keep us safe and healthy."

"Everyone that came today, they knew Jerry as a great police officer. His passion was to serve and protect," nephew Anthony D'Ambrosia said.

"It's a great loss to the community," said Joe Lombardo, the former police chief of Union Township. "He was a great man."

"He was an excellent police officer, but he was an even better person. Every conversation ended with him telling me, 'God bless you, stay safe,'" said New Castle police Lt. David Cumo.

"We're going to miss him. It's a tragedy, and it's going to be very difficult for me," said New Castle Mayor Anthony Mastrangelo, who was also a friend of McCarthy's.

Gov. Tom Corbett ordered all Pennsylvania flags at the state Capitol in Harrisburg and at state facilities in Lawrence County to be lowered to half-staff until sunset on Wednesday. All Pennsylvanians are invited to join the flag tribute.

State police said New Castle police tried to pull over 25-year-old Kylee Barletto, who they said was driving erratically on Thursday night, but she didn't stop and eventually hit the 60-year-old McCarthy's police car.

Barletto has been released from a Youngstown, Ohio hospital and is awaiting extradition to Pennsylvania to face charges that include homicide by vehicle and manslaughter involving a law enforcement officer.